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Material:
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IDEA Practices
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| Submitted by: |
Tamarah Ashton on Aug 26, 2000 |
| Date Last Modified: |
Aug 26, 2000 |
| Title: |
Helping Parents Understand IDEA |
| Description: |
The main piece of special education legislation, IDEA, is often cumbersome to discuss with parents. This assignment explores other avenues of providing this information to parents. |
| Type of Task: |
Individual,
Student-centered,
Supplemental activity,
Unsupervised
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| Time Required |
30 to 60 minutes |
| Topics: |
IDEA |
| Course: |
IEPs and Legislation |
| Audience: |
College Upper Div Major
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| Categories: |
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| Prerequisites Skills: |
Working knowledge of IDEA |
| Learning Objectives: |
To learn the basic concepts of IDEA that need to be conveyed to parents.
To find alternative routes of explanation. |
| Text of Learning Exercise: |
1. Visit the IDEA Practices website (http://www.ideapractices.org).
2. Imagine that you are sitting at an IEP meeting as the special education
teacher and you are attempting to cover the basic elements of IDEA with parents
who are new to you.
3. Describe how you might introduce this site to the parents.
4. What specific areas might you tell them to investigate at this site?
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